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Glasgow North East: a vanity contest?

If there's any part of Glasgow with No Mean City gouged on its forearm in sharpened Biro, it is Glasgow North East.

The constituency, taking in a slice of Bishopbriggs in the north to the fringes of the city centre in the south, brings new shades of meaning to fearsome; it is urban squalor in every hue, an area that looks as if it is helping police with their enquiries.

The UK Polling Report guide says Glasgow North East is one of the "most degraded, deprived and crime-ridden parts" of the country. Come here and you are left supposing it was just being diplomatic, though, as you shuttle between the mean, flatlining shopping centres and the vast sciencefiction interzone of the Red Road flats.

If you want to know how hardcore Glasgow North East is consider the following: Mikey Hughes, an independent candidate in the constituency's forthcoming byelection, was threatened